St Peter's Residents' Association

3 May 2012

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The SPRA AGM 2012

The Annual General Meeting of the St Peter’s Association was held at the Dominican Priory on Thursday 26 April at 7pm. Guest speakers were Adelina Comas-Herrera, Chairman of the Westgate Community Trust and Imogen Morizet, Vice-chairman. They told us how the hall was saved from demolition and their plans for the future.

The SPRA PICNIC

To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee the SPRA invites all members, with their families and friends to join them for a PICNIC in Solly's Orchard on Monday 4th June 2012. Nothing formal, just bring your own picnic and something to sit on and we will be there from 12 noon.

The next BIG CLEAN UP

This will be on July 7th 2012

Planning Application

Planning application for Photovoltaic cell installation in St Radigunds Street CA//12/00173 update 24 April 2012

Following over 65 letters of objection from Local residents this application has been withdrawn. A new planning application for use of the land will probably follow.

SPRA Membership renewal 2012-3 The subscription is unchanged. £5 per household or £3 for a single member. It takes a lot of time collecting and chasing up subscriptions. To help reduce this we have introduced Standing Order as the preferred payment method. Please use this if possible - it will help us and be easier for you. Once set up it will continue automatically until cancelled. Click HERE for form. Otherwise please renew your subscription ASAP please

Cromwells Bar Update 24 April 2012 The building conversion is now well under way.

Planning permission for the Kings School was granted 12 Dec 2011for its change of use to Pottery and Photograpic workshops. See Ref CA//11/01786 on the councils website for details. There will only be nominal changes to the exterior and interior of the building.

Christmas Party 2011 This was held as usual at The Dominican Priory on Thursday 15th December from 7 to 9 pm.

Westgate Hall Update 24 April. Legal work still not completed and hall remains open for the prsent. The council’s Executive have accepted the Westgate Hall Trust’s proposals. The Trust will run the large hall as a centre for the community. Curzon Cinemas will run the other half of the building as a 3 screen cinema. Conversion work should start in June 2012.

For more information click HERE for a link to the Trust's website

2nd Big Clean Up Oct 2011. The St Peters Association took part again. All the weeds were removed from King St and part of Mill Lane and Blackfriars Street.

1st Big Clean Up June 2011. in the big clean up of the City. See News for details

Marlowe Theatre Licensing Application. This was approved at the Guildhall on 26 May 2011

City Parks and Gardens

Chairman beside Solly's Orchard

Solly's Orchard, The Butterfly Garden, The Greyfriars Garden and The Three Cities Garden, will remain locked at night using the Civil Enforcement Officers (traffic wardens). The Westgate Garden, Canterbury Castle and Greyfriars Garden will also remain locked at night.

SPA AGM 2011 The AGM was on Thursday 28 April 2011 at 7pm. The guest speaker was Philippe Esclasse, the City Centre Manager, who spoke on the future of Canterbury City centre and answered numerous questions. Barry Clarke our Treasurer retired after several years service and was presented with a gift token. Gillian Rushton was elected in his place. Lucy Boutwood retired as Secretary and Alexi Brook was elected in her place. Janet Scott was elected as our planning representative.

Residents Card Offers. Save on eating out and shopping. Click for full details HERE

Ocakbasi St Peters Street Made application KE-PR-1001 for a late night takeaway licence until 3am every day. This has now been granted after the Police withdrew their objection, due to legal difficulties.

Pavement protection Several bollards and posts have been damaged in our area and we actively chased up their reinstatement. We were pleased to see, 3 February 2011, that the broken post was replaced outside The Dolphin. Unfortunately it was broken again and has been replaced again. The post on the corner of King St/Knotts Lane has been replaced. The post on the corner of King St/Orange Street was at last replaced in August 2011 after 9 months of chasing up!

Passion Bar Kandi after being shut since October 2010 was re-branded 'Passion' and re-opened on Friday 4 February and then shut in April. The lease is currently for sale. The interior has recently been stripped

78 Northgate Planning application CA//11/00067/FUL for change of use from restaurant class A3 to takeaway class A5, opening until 11:30pm. The premises was known as 'Paprika'. Permission was granted in March.

Christmas Party 2010 This was held as usual at The Dominican Priory on Thursday 16th December

The Ballroom The Ballroom formerly Orange Street Music Club is now open after a major refurbishment as a bar and live music venue. Their web site is http://www.theballroom.co/flash_venue.html.

Office Equipment Shop 2-3 Orange Street. Application for change of use to Restaurant/cafe CA//10/01878. The decision was deferred for further consideration but has since been granted.

Cromwells - G Bar. G Bar is no more. The premises is closed, has been sold to a private buyer and will not reopen as a licensed bar.

Big Clean Up The St Peters Association took part in the big clean up of the City on Saturday 9th October 2010 in conjunction with The Canterbury Society. The river and the footpaths on either side, between The Millers Arms and Sainsburys had large amounts of rubbish and litter removed.

Proposed mill museum and alternative energy site. The plot has been legally transferred in July 2010 and some of the scrub cleared. A planning application was proposed for late 2010 but had not materialised as of 8 May 2011. Application still not made as of Feb 2011..

Potholes Update. Potholes in St Radigunds and King Street are now mended. More King St potholes patched September 2011.

Barbeque 2010 The annual barbeque was held on 22 July at the Dominican Priory. Once again we had fine weather and a warm evening. It was nice to see some new younger faces.

Westgate Hall 9 June The Council have responded encouragingly to the Westgate Hall Trust proposals to run the hall as a charitable trust and save it from demolition. Click HERE to connect to their website.

Northgate Newsagents Their new alcohol licence has only been granted until 9pm - not the 2am originally applied for.

Unit 1 4-6 Orange Street Planning permission has been refused for change of use to a restaurant mainly due to lack of information..

Potholes Four members of our committee met with County Councillor Graham Gibbens and showed him examples of the potholes in St Radigunds St. He has put us in touch with Richard Dixon of Highways. A meeting has also been arranged with Martin Vye, our County Councillor.

Lady Luck Bar St Peter's Streethas been granted a music licence. One live and one recorded event per month both to end by 11pm. Noise suppressor to be fitted to the music system. Back door to garden to be kept closed. Their music licence has been considerably extended early 2012 to have music twice a week. .

Westgate Community Trust Following the statement that the Council intend to demolish the hall as being uneconomic to run, a trust was set up to propose taking over the running of the building for the community. A business plan has been submitted to the council and their response is awaited. Click HERE for a link to the Trust's excellent Website.

The Beaney Update 24 April 2012. Revised planning application granted. Two small trees to be planted on the frontage to Best Lane. There is a revised planning application to remove all requirement for outside planting etc. If this of concern to you then you can read the Architects report by clicking HERE

Unit 1 4-6 Orange Street Update 24 April. Application still not decided. There is an outline planning application CA//10/00546, which has just been submitted, for change of use from class A1 (retail) to class A3 (cafe or restaurant). This building is at present occupied by the Merchant Chandler. The application is from the premises owners Praedia Investments Ltd. Details can be found on the Council Website. A representation has been made by the Association. As of Nov 2011 all the building is for sale. This does not affect the leaseholders.

THE ST PETERS ASSOCIATION AGM 2010 The AGM took place at The Dominican Priory on Thursday 22 April at 7pm. A new constitution was adopted and there were various changes to the Officers and Committee. See NEWS for more details

GRAFFITI Update 24 April. Futher graffiti removed from double doors on frontage to 52 King Street. There were several buildings in The King's Street area sprayed with Graffiti in March 2010. The police have had the details. Serco have sucessfully removed it from some of the houses. Look at INFORMATION page for details of graffiti reporting


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